Dr. Edwin L. Perkins Biography


	This biography appears on pages 412-413 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				DR. EDWIN L. PERKINS.  

	Dr. Edwin L. Perkins has devoted his attention to the practice of 
medicine and surgery in Sioux Falls for the past ten years, and in his 
life-work has won an enviable reputation as an able and exemplary 
representative of the profession. 

	Dr. Perkins was born in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, November 8, 
1870, the son of Loring A. and Julia Morrill Perkins. The family dates 
its origin historically from early English ancestors of the period of 
Elizabeth. Men of science and invention are numbered among its members, 
and the name of Perkins is prominent in the early history of the New 
England colonies and among the makers of history during the 
Revolutionary period.  

	Dr. Perkins has been a resident of Sioux Falls since May 4, 1889. 
Beginning his education in the public schools at Montello, Wisconsin, 
he subsequently entered the Sioux Falls College from which institution 
he was graduated in 1892. After teaching in the Sioux Falls High School 
a number of years, he prepared for the practice of medicine, graduating 
from the Northwestern University Medical School of Chicago in 1904, and 
the following year he completed the course in the Chicago Post-Graduate 
Hospital. He immediately began practice in Sioux Falls, and has 
remained there continuously since. He is a member of several medical 
societies, and a progressive student in the realm of his profession. It 
was largely through the influence of Dr. Perkins that the McKennan 
Hospital at Sioux Falls was founded. 

	On the 21st of June, 1906, at Excelsior, Minnesota, Dr. Perkins 
was united in marriage to Miss Sena Marie Swenson, by whom he has three 
children, namely: Mary Elizabeth, Edwin Morrill and Ralph Hiram. 

	In politics Dr. Perkins is a democrat, while in his religious 
faith he is associated with the Congregational church. Fraternally he 
is identified with the Masons, belonging to the Consistory and the 
Shrine. He is also a member of the South Dakota Chapter of the Sons of 
the American Revolution.  

	Dr. Perkins' professional labors are all in the direction of the 
general uplift of the community in which he lives, and he enjoys the 
respect of his brethren of the medical fraternity by reason of his 
strict conformity to a high standard of professional ethics.